KIEV, Sept. 21 – Fitch Ratings on September 18, 2015, downgraded PrivatBank's (Privat) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating to 'RD' (Restricted Default) from 'C' on completion of the bank's $200 million eurobond restructuring, Fitch said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods in July demonstrated a positive trend for a sixth month in a row and amounted to $180 million against $384.5 million in June, $295.9 million in May and $229.3 million in April 2015, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – One of the largest beer producers in Ukraine , SUN InBev Ukraine and Carlsberg Ukraine could shut down one brewery each by the end of this year due to the increase in the fiscal pressure, along with the falling market and low loading of breweries.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Austria 's AMIC Energy Management GmbH acquired the Ukrainian chain of filling stations from Russia 's Lukoil, AMIC Energy Managing Director Gunther Maier said at a press conference in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Ukraine ’s industrial output fell 21.4% year-on-year in August, compared with 12.1% drop in July, 5% decline in June and 2.1% contraction in May, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Ukraine may get a visa-free regime with the European Union at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga in May 2015, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal has said.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - Ukraine’s coal reserves at fossil-fuel burning power plants decreased by 2.3% over the past week to about 1.999 million metric tons as of September 15, compared with 2.047 million mt as of September 8, UkrEnergo, a company that runs the country’s power grid, said Friday.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 22 - Export of goods from Ukraine to the EU in the second quarter of 2014 increased by 9.07% compared to the second quarter of 2013, according to data from Eurostat.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The World Bank has said that the bank could more quickly provide a second disbursement of $500 million as a part of the Second Development Policy Loan (DPL-II) – by the end of 2014, although this will require hard work of Ukrainian authorities, the Finance Ministry has reported after negotiations of Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak with Vice President of World Bank for Europe and Central Asia Laura Tuck in Kiev on September 19.

MOSCOW, Sept. 22 - The Russian government will decide on raising import duties on goods from Ukraine within 10 days if the Ukrainian government takes action on the implementation of the economic portion of the EU association agreement, the Russian Council of Ministers said in a resolution on Monday.